Math Update

The latest in math:
As students have settled in and familiarized themselves with this new curriculum, math has taken on a different speed. I am seeing students on a daily basis (with the exception of Spanish and Eaton Canyon or other events taking place during your students math block).

1B: We are getting into building the conceptual knowledge of multiplication. Instead of just memorizing facts, students are seeing what 3x2 means - three groups of two. Multiplication includes multiple math skills, such as adding and skip counting. 

2A: We are moving out of putting together 3-digit numbers. Encourage your student to add from the "ones" column to the "tens" then the "hundreds" as opposed to just "right to left." During our lessons, I am exposing students to different ways of putting together 3-digit numbers such as stacking, decomposing by place value, or using the part-whole method. 

2B: We are moving out of mental math. Students were encouraged to use various strategies to add or subtract up to 3-digit numbers using mental math. We learned to use friendly numbers, such as counting up by tens or "compensate using friendly numbers." For example 387- 98 can be easily computated by mental math if you compensate for 389-100.